Digital Transformation requires Digital Leadership

But it’s a different kind of leadership,not the kind many of us think about when we think about great leadership.One of the leaders I met with early on said to me,“Linda, I don’t read books on leadership.All they do is make me feel bad.” (Laughter)“In the first chapter they say I’m supposed to create a vision.But if I’m trying to do something that’s truly new, I have no answers.I don’t know what direction we’re going inand I’m not even sure I know how to figure out how to get there.”For sure, there are times when visionary leadershipis exactly what is needed.

But if we want to build organizations that can innovate time and again,we must recast our understanding of what leadership is about.Leading innovation is about creating the spacewhere people are willing and able to do the hard workof innovative problem solving.